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Flora, Ceres, and Pomona, secondary title-page by David Loggan, 1665. Rea wrote Flora, seu de Florum Cultura, or a complete Florilege, with a second title-page as Flora, Ceres, and Pomona, in III. Books, London, 1665. A second impression, appeared in 1676 and was reissued, with a new title-page, in 1702. [1]
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname.The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name.
John Ray by Roubiliac, British Museum. John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family ...
This is an incomplete list of botanists by their author abbreviation, which is designed for citation with the botanical names or works that they have published. This list follows that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992). [1]
John Rae (biographer) (1845–1915), Scottish journalist and biographer of Adam Smith; John Rae (politician) (1904–1979), politician of the New Zealand National Party; John Rae (headmaster) (1931–2006), English novelist, journalist and headmaster; John A. Rae (born 1945), Canadian businessman, political organizer, and political adviser
In 1854, the explorer John Rae found himself at the centre of one of the great controversies of the nineteenth century – the fate of the Franklin expedition. With the British hoping to be first in the race to discover the Northwest Passage, the news Rae brought of starvation and cannibalism among final survivors set off a firestorm that would eclipse his own incredible accomplishments.
This is an incomplete list of botanists by their author abbreviation, which is designed for citation with the botanical names or works that they have published. This list follows that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992). [1]
John Rae FRS FRGS (Inuktitut: ᐊᒡᓘᑲ, ; 30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893) was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada. He was a pioneer explorer of the Northwest Passage . Rae explored the Gulf of Boothia , northwest of the Hudson Bay , from 1846 to 1847, and the Arctic coast near Victoria Island from 1848 to 1851.